Grain-heading machine



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES RUDOLPH KUBALA, or YOAKUM, TEXAS.

GRAIN-READING MACHINE.

Application filed September 24, 1923. Serial No. 664,583.

I 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JAMES R. KUBALA, a citizen of the United States, residing. at Yoa-kum, in the county of De Witt and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain-Head- Machines; and I do declare the follow ing to be a full, clear, and exact description tops into the wagon bed.

In carrying out the aboveend, I employ a reciprocating cutter for severing the heads of the grain from the stalks, provide a guide to depress the heads and properly present them to said cutter, and employ a reel for throwing the severed heads rearwardly into conveying mechanism which discharges them into the wagon bed or other suitable receiver; and further objects of my invention are to mount said guide and said reel in a novel manner so as to permit a'd j ustment thereof according to the size of the grain to be topped.

VVit-h the foregoing in view, the inventio resides in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, the descriptive matter being supplemented by the accompanying drawings which form a part of this application.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my invention attached to a farm wagon.

Figure 2 is a side elevation.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the plane designated by line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Figs. 4 and 5 are vertical transverse sections on the planes indicated by the lines 4--t and 5-5 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view showing more clearly the manner of mounting the guide and reel above mentioned.

In carrying out my invention, I prefer to construct the same in the form of an attachment for farm wagons, although a number of the novel features of construction hereinafter described, could well be incor porated in a complete cane topping machine, constructed as a whole at the factory. When the improvements are embodied in the form of a wagon attachment, I employ a rectangular frame 1 disposed horizontally and provided with means for securing it on one side of a wagon bed B, said frame being shown as securely mounted on one end of two transverse sleepers 2, said sleepers being adapted to rest on the sides of the wagon bed. The ends of the sleepersQ, remote from the framel may be secured to the wagon-bed in any preferred manner, but in most instances I contemplate the use of vertical bolts 3 secured at one end to the side of the bed and passed at their other ends through said sleepers. Adjacent the other ends of the sleepers 2, the frame 1 may well be attached to the wagon bed-by braces 4.

As shown, the outerside bar 5 of the frame 1 projects forwardly beyond the front end bar 6 thereof, and an L-shaped bracket 7 is secured in the angle between said projecting end of the bar 5 and said bar 6. This bracket serves to brace the frame and also acts as carrying means for the. topping mechanism. This mechanism by preference comprises a fixed base bar 9 having teeth 10, and a suitable sickle bar 11. The bar 9 extends laterally from the front end of the frame l and is shown integrally joined at its inner end to the bracket 7, said bar carrying the sickle bar 11 in any well known manner.

For depressing the heads of the grain and properly presenting them to the cutting mechanism. I provide a guide bar 12 positioned in advance of the sickle bar 11 and moimted for vertical adjustment. In the present form of the machine, the bar 12 is provided with rearwardly extending arms 13 which are pivot-ally mounted at 14.- for vertical swinging. Suitable means such as the slotted links 15 are provided for holding the arms 13 in any position to which they may be swung, clamping bolts 16 being passed through the slots ll? of said links. I prefer to pivot the arms 13 to a pair of vertical standards 18 which rise rigidly from the ends of the bar 9 and may well be integral with said bar, and said standards 18 may also carry the clamping bolts 17, as well as additional vertical arms 19 carrying a reel 20.

The arms 19 above mentioned are mounted for forward and rearward 'swlngmg in order that the reel may be adjusted 'toproduc'e the best results, and I prefer that the clamping bolts 16 shall serve also as the'pivot's' for said arms 19, thus simplifying the machine and at the same time permitting th esebolts to clamp the links 15 as well as the arms 19 in adjusted position. In addition to the holding actionof the bolts 16 however, bolts 21 are preferably provided to adjustably se cure the lower ends of the arms 19 to' the The bar 12 when properly adj u'stedi pre-j sents' the tops of the grain to the cutter in the most eifective manner and said tops are preferably gui ed tosaidbar by apiair of forwardly diverging feelers 23".. 'the'" heads" are ciit, jthe reel 2O throws su -1 1 heads rearwardly into a rearwardly declining chute 24, and the latterdischargesinto' a relatively steep trough 25, in which is located an end less conveyor 26' which will elevate thetops and discharge them intothe wagon bed B. The chute 2&1 and trough 25'may be mounted.

inany adequate'manner and the front end of said chute is by preference secured tothe bar 9 as illustrated in Fig. 3.

The frame 1 carries a transverse: drive shaft 27 which as'shown,-,is driven, by a,

chain28 and sprocket 29 from one Wheel'of the wagon, said shaft being suitably geared at 30' to a longitudinal shaft 31 whichopcrates the pitman 3 2 for the sickle bar 11.. A chain 33 drives the'reel 20from thejsha'ft I v body', said' frame includinga front end bar 27, and by meansof gearing EA'and theshaft 35, theoonveyor 26 is operated. The driv; ing mechanism disclosedjis preferably followed, but analago'us' arrangements might well be substituted if desirech In all instances, the sickle bar and reel'will sever i the grain heads an d deposit theman the chute 24, and theconv'eyor 26 vill then carry them into thewagon bed' B.

The device is of rather simple and ineX vice inay beattached to or removed from an ordinary farm wagon.

I claim:

1. A heading machine comprising a portable frame, a transverse cuttermounted' on said frame, a vertical standard at each end of said: cutter, upstanding arms pivoted to said standards for forward and"rearward' swinging, a reel mounted on said arms, a transversehorizontal bar'in' advance of said cutter, arms extendingrearwardly from said bar and pivoted to said standards, and

common means for holding'said first and last named arms in adjusted position.

2, Inatopping machine, a portable' frame, a transverse cutter mounted on said frame,

a vertical standard at each end of said cutter Y arms pivoted to and extending forwardly from the lower ends" of said standards, a transverse headdepressing bar carried by saidarjmsslotted links pivoted to and incliningupwardly and rearwardly from said arini to hold them in adjusted position, c1a1npi j1' ;bo1ts passing through the slots of said lin is and through said standards, a reel above said cutter, and a pair of vertical arms carrying said reel and mounted on said clamping bolts.

3. A toppingmachine comprising a horizontal frame, means for securing one end of said frameon aavagon body, its other end being" adapted to project laterally from such and'an outer side bar, a rigid bracket secured in the angle between said side and end bars, a transverse horizontalbar extending laterallyoutward from sai'd'side bar and carried rigidly by said bracket, and heading means carriedby said transverse horizontal bar.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto atfixed my signature.

JAMES- RUDOLPH KUBALA. 

